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My best friend Daniel Somerville is an amazing artist who's coming close to fulfilling his dream of professionally drawing fantasy art. He is far and away the most talented person I know, and I honestly can't believe he isn't already ridiculously successful.

A few of my favorite pictures of his can be seen here, here, and here. See? He's great, right?

Wow. I am not good at this.

Ahem. A little over a month ago my friend had a seizure, and was rushed to the hospital where he was diagnosed with brain cancer. After a few days in the hospital, he finally underwent emergency surgery to have a tumor removed from his brain.

That surgery was a resounding success. I was not aware that humans could recover so quickly, and so completely, from something so scary.

But Daniel still has a long battle ahead of him. He recently started on radiation treatments and chemo therapy, and there's still no word on how long those treatments are supposed to last, or how rough they will be.

And there are also the ever climbing medical costs to deal with. My friend did not have insurance.

I would like to ask you all to do at least one of the following three things:

1: Please take the time to explore some of Daniel's art, and leave him some comments if you have time. This story made the rounds on reddit shortly before his surgery, and the overwhelming support displayed by that community did so much to raise the spirits in the hospital room that night.

2: If you like what you see, please share his art (and story) with anyone you think might be interested in it. One silver lining of this whole situation is that Daniel's art is finally getting some of the attention it has always deserved. In the long term, this publicity is going to make a much bigger difference than the actual fund raising part of our campaign ever will.

3: There is also a fund raising component to this campaign. In the short term, Daniel can use all the help he can get. You can read more about our fund raising efforts (and donate, if you feel so inclined) at our indiegogo page here: http://www.indiegogo.com/help-daniel

Every little bit helps. There are also high rez copies of his art available as a perk if you donate as little as $10, so be sure to give the page a look.

The new Indiefort Countdown Bundles are giving funds to my friend's brain cancer fund for the next five weeks.

The Indiefort Countdown Bundles will give 5% of its money to help my friend (and great fantasy artist/DM) Daniel, with the option to give as much extra as you please to Daniel and/or the devs. There will be a new bundle every week, with discounts going to people who buy them each week (thus the countdown moniker).